Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities: Volume 2

First-Gen PhDs Navigating Institutional Power in Early Academic Careers
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41473-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Mobility Studies and Education

The contributors to Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities: First-Gen PhDs Navigating Institutional Power in Early Careers overcame deeply unequal educational systems to become the first in their families to finish college. Now, they are among the 3% of first-generation undergraduate students to go on to graduate school and then become faculty, in spite of structural barriers that worked against them.

These scholars write of socialization to the professoriate through the complex lens of intersectional identities of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability and social class.

These first-generation graduate students have crafted critical narratives of the structural obstacles within higher education that stand in the way of brilliant scholars who are poor and working-class, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, immigrant, queer, white, women, or people with disabilities. They write of agency in creating defiant networks of support, of sustaining connections to family and communities, of their activism and advocacy on campus. They refuse to perpetuate the myths of meritocracy that reproduce the inequalities of higher education. In response to a research literature and to campus programming that frames their identities around “need”, they write instead of agentive and politicized intersectional identities as first-generation graduate students, committed to institutional change through their research, teaching, and service.

Contributors are: Veronica R. Barrios, Candis Bond, Beth Buyserie, Noralis Rodríguez Coss, Charise Paulette DeBerry, Janette Diaz, Alfred P. Flores, José García, Cynthia George, Shonda Goward, Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, Nataria T. Joseph, Castagna Lacet, Jennifer M. Longley, Catherine Ma, Esther Díaz Martín, Nadia Yolanda Alverez Mexia, T. Mark Montoya, Miranda Mosier, Michelle Parrinello-Cason, J. Michael Ryan, Adrián Arroyo Pérez, Will Porter, Jaye Sablan, Theresa Stewart-Ambo, Keisha Thompson, Ethan Trinh, Jane A. Van Galen and Wendy Champagnie Williams.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Van Galen, Jane A.

Sablan, Jaye

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Affektive, soziale und ethische Ziele in der Erziehung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities: First-Gen PhDs Navigating Institutional Power in Early Academic Careers

Jane A. Van Galen and Jaye Sablan

1 “Si pega, Bueno”: Testimonio of a First Generation Latinx Dual-Career Academic Couple Navigating Family and Profession

Esther Díaz Martín and José García

2 Writing as An Art of Rebellion: Scholars of Color Using Literacy to Find Spaces of Identity and Belonging in Academia

Ethan Trinh and Luis Javier Pentón Herrera

3 Telling Stories: Writing Ourselves into Academia

Miranda Mosier

4 Pathways, Pedagogy, and Pacific Islander Studies

Alfred P. Flores

5 Navigating Institutional Borderlands: An Inside Perspective from the Outside

T. Mark Montoya

6 Dear Native Students, with Love

Theresa Stewart-Ambo

7 Backbone Snacks

Charise P. DeBerry

8 The First

Veronica R. Barrios

9 Sister, Sister, Never Knew How Much I Missed Ya!

Catherine Ma and Keisha V. Thompson

10 “I Have Measured out My Life with Coffee Spoons”: On Time and Motherhood as a First-Generation PhD

Candis Bond

11 Yes, We Count: Weaving Fluid Identities of Disability and Sexuality into First-Gen Pedagogies

Beth Buyserie

12 From the Hood to Higher Ed: An Autoethnography of Race, Class, and Gender

Castagna Lacet and Wendy Champagnie Williams

13 Multiply Conscious and in Need of Divine Intervention

Nataria T. Joseph

14 The Long and the Short of It: Realities and Expectations of Landing and Losing a Dream Job

Michelle Parrinello-Cason

15 Surviving the Matrix: The Struggles of a Small Town Gay Kid to Become a Globe-Trotting Professional Academic

J. Michael Ryan

16 (In)visible (Dis)advantages: Being “One of the Boys” in Classical Music Performance

Will Porter

17 Re-Framing the Enemy within in Academia

Noralis Rodríguez Coss

18 Navigating Distances: From Sob Story to Educational Privilege

Janette Diaz

19 Finding My Voice

Jennifer M. Longley

20 Climbing Uphill

Nadia Yolanda Alvarez Mexia and Adrián Arroyo Pérez

21 First-Gens and Student Debt: Paying More While Getting Less

Cynthia George

22 Resilience and Grit Are for Rich People: How “Making It” through Higher Education Has Made Me Sick

Shonda L. Goward

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jane A. Van Galen, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Washington Bothell. She has authored multiple articles and co-edited two books on class, mobility, and education. She leads the First in Our Families digital storytelling project.

Jaye Sablan, MA, is Assistant Director of Graduate Student Affairs in The Graduate School at the University of Washington and leads the First-Gen Graduate Student Initiative. She is Native Chamorro, genderqueer, and first in family to go to college.